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Run a weekly Canvas assignment review

A short weekly review catches incomplete assignment setup before it becomes a student issue.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

Action

Get all assignments

Retrieves assignments for a specified canvas course.

Why this helps

Assignment gaps accumulate because nobody has a dependable review moment.

  • Catch missing details early
  • Create a reliable review habit
  • Reduce last-minute fixes

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Canvas in Notis once.
  • 2Create an automation asking Notis to review assignments and summarize anything needing attention.
  • 3Pick a recurring schedule trigger.
  • 4Choose where reports go and test with one immediate run.

Questions about this workflow

Can the review focus on one course?

Specify the course and the assignment criteria in the automation prompt.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link One drive to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

One drive triggers

Canvas actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Create account notification

Creates a global notification within a canvas account, ensuring `end at` is after `start at` and any specified `notification roles` are valid.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Create appointment group

Creates a new appointment group in canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.

ActionInstant

Onedrivebasetrigger

Base trigger for OneDrive changes using Gmail-style state management. Subclasses override `filter_changes(...)` to extract only the relevant items.

TriggerPolling

Create an assignment

Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.

ActionInstant

OneDrive File Created Trigger

Triggers when a new file is created in OneDrive. Uses Gmail-style state management for reliable duplicate prevention.

TriggerPolling

Create assignment override

Creates an assignment override to adjust due/unlock/lock dates for an assignment in a course, targeting specific students (requires `title`), a group, or a course section; at least one target (`student ids`, `group id`, or `course section id`) is required.

ActionInstant

File Updated

Trigger that fires when a OneDrive file's content or metadata changes. Returns file ID, last modified time, and modifier info.

TriggerPolling

Create Calendar Event

Creates a calendar event with options for recurrence (finite `rrule` series only), section-specific timings, and blackout dates within a specified context.

ActionInstant

OneDrive Folder Created Trigger

Triggers when a new folder is created in OneDrive. Uses Gmail-style state management for reliable duplicate prevention.

TriggerPolling

Create communication channel

Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.

ActionInstant

OneDrive Item Deleted Trigger

Triggers when a file or folder is deleted in OneDrive. Uses Gmail-style state management for reliable duplicate prevention.

TriggerPolling

Create content share

Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.

ActionInstant

Item Moved or Renamed

Triggers when a file or folder is moved to a different path or renamed in OneDrive. Includes both old and new path/name data in the payload.

TriggerPolling

Create conversation

Use to send messages in canvas by creating a new conversation or adding to an existing one; an existing conversation with the same recipients (and matching scope/filter, if specified) may be reused unless `force new` is true.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

One drive and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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